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    Photo: Christopher Griffith

    On June 10, Rhythm and Blue drummers, dancer Tamara Belinda, The People of the Sun Middle Passage Collective and the Crown Heights Youth Collective, as photographed by Chris Griffith, memorialized and saluted ancestors Tina Turner, Harry Belafonte, Jim Brown, and millions of others at the 34th gathering at the African Circle at Coney Island’s Atlantic Ocean edge.

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